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Renaissance Quotations

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Quote Left I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Quote Right
Quote Left I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. Quote Right
Quote Left In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Quote Right
Quote Left In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Quote Right
Quote Left People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology. Quote Right
Quote Left I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. Quote Right
Quote Left Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. Quote Right
Quote Left The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. Quote Right

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